Along with the God of Law - Chapter 383



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383.

It had only been a few minutes since Baek Hoon-sik had entered the criminal investigation room.

The staff of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office began to enter the 5th trial room with gloomy expressions on their faces.

In their hands were blue boxes for the prosecution, symbolizing search and seizure. Immediately, a confrontation with the prosecutors of the trial department broke out.

In other words, it was a surprise attack and there was no prior notice.

“Hey, what is this?”

“Wait a minute! This is the data the manager requested for review!”

It was a bolt from the blue for the hard-working inspectors.

The prosecutor who had been focusing all his attention on the computer screen had his monitor taken away, and the prosecutor who had been coordinating work with the trial staff in a loud voice had his conversation stopped by the office staff.

In simple terms, a work stoppage.

The purpose of what happened now was to gather data for an internal audit, but it looked just like a corporate search and seizure.

“It’s the Second Vice-Chief’s order. We have the First Vice-Chief’s permission. We are sorry, but there is nothing we can do…”

Second Vice Minister Yoo Seong-jin, who oversees the secretariat, seemed to be very excited as he was given full authority to control the internal affairs for the first time in a long time.

Even First Vice Minister Do Jin-guk cannot stop it once the order to launch a grand prosecution has been given.

“… I understand. So the decision has been made among the vice-presidents.”

Prosecutor Jeon Yun-woo and others raised both hands as if they were defeated, and Vice-Chief Yang Seong-gyeom had already quickly taken his vacation and disappeared.

An Ji-won, who had remained and fought until the end, was only able to protect a few documents while protesting that several prosecutors had to work due to an imminent trial date.

“Surely the manager’s office too?”

“It’s the same. All documents other than the approved documents must be submitted, and cannot be retrieved until the business audit is completed.”

The target is Kang Hyeon.

In fact, the person they were really thinking of thanking might not be another inspector, but ‘only Kang Hyun’.

-Open it.

-Team Leader, your instructions were relayed, right?

-What if I refuse to submit?

-I don’t know.

It took them some time to open the door to the chief’s office, but the order from the deputy chief prosecutors of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office was so great.

“… I will open it.”

Bam.

Finally, the door opened.

“I’ve been waiting.”

Kang Hyun, who had been sitting quietly inside, surprisingly got up from his seat and spoke with a smile without any particular resistance.

“Do I also need to retrieve the materials over there, the computer here, and the trial case records?”

“yes?”

“are you okay.”

“… Yes, I’m sorry. There’s nothing I can do.”

“I will somehow prepare the necessary audit data, such as case allocation records, through the system report, so please do as you are instructed.”

“I am truly sorry.”

“Excuse me.”

Kang Hyun is surprisingly calm.

In fact, it was a direct hit from the Great Sword’s shells, and it was a tense moment that the internal staff could feel it.

Kang Hyun ‘welcomed’ them without much reaction.

Okay then.

Woof woof.

The employees who had been making all sorts of excuses to each other to even open the door quickly went in and started to ‘clean out’ Manager Kang Hyun’s office.

A cart came in, hauling out paper documents, and three burly men carried the entire cabinet away.

“That too!”

“That’s it?”

Thanks to that, Kang Hyun’s 5th department head’s office, which was old but still a pretty good place to work, looked like an empty, ruined room. It was a really awkward situation.

but.

Kang Hyun still sat there indifferently, humming as he helped his employees transfer some documents. Eventually, he turned on the laptop he had borrowed from the ‘cyber investigation team’ and started working diligently.

He didn’t care at all when his elite office staff ransacked the director’s office, and he didn’t even say anything when there was a small commotion outside the office.

So the uproar quickly died down and the seizure under the pretext of ‘submission of documents’ was quickly over. The office was empty, but no major conflicts arose.

This neat organization of Kang Hyun also influenced the trial department staff.

As soon as the office finished sweeping away all the data, Kang Hyun, as if he had been waiting, issued a ‘vacation order’.

“Now go on vacation.”

“Really?”

“Okay, I’ll go.”

“Are you sure it’s okay?”

“Of course, it won’t change anything if the inspectors aren’t here. I’ll contact you if anything comes up.”

“I will get back to you at any time, just contact me.”

“yes.”

The inspectors left the office in groups of three or four, their faces flushed with blood, following Kang Hyun’s ‘vacation order.’

They are sad that their places have been taken away, but they are on vacation. They feel a vague sense of sadness but also something okay.

Woof woof.

Most of them left. In the end, Kang Hyun was the only one left in the office, except for a few essential staff members. Only then did he stop immersing himself in his laptop and stretch.

“Ugh. It’s not easy.”

Carrying a greatsword and a spear, it’s not easy.

Well, actually, I did eat one.

When I first received the letter from the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Public Prosecutor’s Office, I thought they would attack me in this way.

However, I did not know that Wang Nam-ryong was such an agile and quick-witted person, and that the Central District Prosecutors’ Office would be so easily penetrated by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.

‘Well, I forgot for a moment that this was the prosecutor’s office.’

No matter how much the Central District Prosecutors’ Office and the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office are in an adversarial relationship, a superior office is a superior office, and a inferior office is a inferior office.

In the prosecution organization where obedience to orders is the foundation, how can a lower-level office block an audit order from a higher-level office?

Rather, the fact that Jeong Joong-heon is silently ignoring the prosecutor’s request can be seen as a form of resistance against the prosecutor.

Fortunately, there was a point where it could be determined that the First Vice Minister, Do Jin-guk, was not completely on the side of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. If he was in fact a puppet of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, the Supreme Prosecutor’s warning would never have ended with an internal audit.

“You seem to have a lot on your mind, junior.”

The one who appeared in the empty 5th department head’s office was Department Head Jeong Ji-eun.

It must be complicated for her, too, as the department she leads has been robbed of its power, but she is one of the three chief prosecutors who has been through a lot, and is the daughter of the chief prosecutor of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office.

“It happens often. There’s no problem.”

“yes.”

“Still, aren’t you nervous?”

“Honestly, I’m afraid they’ll continue to sabotage us in a tail-biting manner.”

“Yeah. If you keep wasting your time on things like this, you won’t be able to keep up with the Daejin Group, let alone the president. Have you thought about how to deal with it?”

“… Yes. Of course.”

Kang Hyun seemed to be thinking for a moment, but then raised his head and gave a big affirmative sign to Jeong Ji Eun. It means that there is a corner of her that she believes in.

“In fact, there was no defense against such attacks. It was fortunate that the ‘Park Min-ha illegal drug case’ was sent to the Southern District Prosecutors’ Office in advance.”

“however?”

“But something is about to happen.”

“Means of defense?”

Nod.

At Kang Hyun’s confident expression, Manager Jeong Ji-eun turned her head and looked at the person coming in.

Bam!

A prosecutor comes in panting.

‘Baek Hoon-sik’s inspection?’

Jeong Ji-eun made a puzzled face, as if to say, “Could that defensive measure really be referring to that inspection?”

Kang Hyun smiled as he looked at her.

It was understandable. What power did that youngest prosecutor have that made him the key to confronting Chief Wang Nam-ryong?

‘There’s no need to explain it to me.’

Of course, Kang Hyun wasn’t talking about Baek Hoon-sik. It was the case record he was carrying on his arm.

‘Kang Yoon-ki incident.’ and ‘Song Doo-seung incident.’

The two incidents were still sparkling with Kang Hyun’s abilities. That’s why those incidents were the ‘key’ to blocking the current offensive.

Kang Hyun was able to make one guess as he looked at this still-present halo of light.

‘What if the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Public Prosecutor’s Office is involved in the responsibility for Song Doo-seung’s mysterious disappearance?’

Song Doo-seung, former Supreme Prosecutors’ Office human rights supervisor and the first whistleblower.

And the former Public Prosecutor’s Office Public Security Department, which was in charge of this whistleblower case and Song Doo-seung.

Simply put, in the past, Song Doo-seung was investigated by former Supreme Prosecutors’ Office staff, but in the end, the case was hushed up.

‘It’s true that the back is dirty.’

If their connection became his weapon, Kang Hyun would have acquired a weapon that would make Wang Nam Ryong untouchable in the future.

One step towards that future now depended on Baek Hoon-sik’s briefing.

*

“… I focused on finding a connection between the two incidents. It didn’t take a lot of time, but I couldn’t let the case drag on either.”

“Good judgment.”

I started talking because Kang Hyun and Jeong Ji-eun seemed to have an expression that said, ‘Let’s give it a try,’ and I guess that’s right.

Baek Hoon-sik couldn’t shake off the expression filled with doubt even as he started briefing the case.

They say that the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office will come down to target the 5th trial division tomorrow or the day after.

Is it okay to stay like this?

“Have you obtained any new information regarding Kang Yoon-ki’s personal information?”

“Yes. Unfortunately, we failed to obtain Kang Yoon-ki’s personal information. We even listened to statements from the police, prosecutors, courts, local government offices, city hall, welfare facilities, and even acquaintances of Mr. Kim Joo-in. It’s strange.”

“There’s a high chance that Kang Yoon-gi isn’t his real name.”

“Or maybe you changed your name on purpose.”

“I guess you learned something from your investigation.”

“Ah! Yes, yes, that’s right.”

When Manager Jeong Ji-eun spoke with a faint smile, Baek Hoon-sik couldn’t resist and stood at attention and kept repeating, “That’s right.”

What was even more embarrassing while Baek Hoon-sik was briefing was Jeong Ji-eun next to Kang Hyun.

She, too, added each word with great concentration, as if she were present in the reality that would become the bridgehead for a major incident.

‘No way.’

At this point, Baek Hoon-sik could predict something without even asking. He wasn’t stupid.

‘Is this incident related to this audit?’

So Baek Hoon-sik straightened his posture and spread out the documents properly. Jeong Ji-eun and Kang Hyun shared the case records that had been placed on the floor because there was no desk.

“I thought about why Kang Yoon-ki’s personal information was strangely absent. In our country’s legal system, there is no possibility that ‘the personal information of the subject of the investigation is accidentally absent.’ It seemed as if this person was designed in a way that it could not be found or tracked.”

“It’s possible.”

“Yes. There is no record of the resident registration being cancelled… so I have a strong suspicion that someone may have deleted the records.”

“You erased the records?”

“Yes, that’s why the speculation I got from the ‘Song Doo-seung incident’ given by Chief Kang Hyun was also supported. That Kang Yoon-ki could be Song Doo-seung’s ‘family member.’”

family?

“Family. You know this record. We are a long-time prosecutor family, but we were branded as whistleblowers and disappeared… You probably don’t have any family, right?”

Jeong Ji-eun flipped through the records as if she found them interesting.

Song Doo-seung, she also knows him. He is a senior to Jeong Joong-heon, and was the target of a strong investigation due to the first ‘whistleblower’ on corruption in the history of the prosecution.

But he has been missing for a long time and has been declared dead. He has no family, his parents are dead, and of course, he has no siblings.

His family, more specifically his ‘brothers’, are likely to be involved.

It was Baek Hoon-sik who discovered it.